English hotel Indigo has decided to replace its Bibles with Kindles and has even received kind words of support from Gideons International, the deliverers of Bibles worldwide.

So, the traditional version of Bible will get the boot and the holy text will be loaded onto Kindle Touch devices strapped with Wi-Fi. Additionally, guests will be treated to up to $8 worth of religious texts for free, but only in the first two weeks of the program.

Guests will be able to purchase other books in Amazon's store, not necessarily from the fantasy genre. The additional titles will be synced to their account and the book will only be readable during their stay.

The hotel expects the Kindles to be handled just like the rest of its stuff, such as towels and soaps. So, if its Kindle goes missing, it will be charged to the room.

Seeing as how printing and distributing a Bible costs $5 and a 6-inch Kindle Touch costs $139, it will not come cheap. In fact, purchasing a Kindle Touch for each of the 148 rooms adds up to $20,572. Some would argue that the same cash could theoretically feed many hungry children in third world countries, but who are we to complain.

Gideons spokesperson Ken Stephens said: "Anything to put the Bible in people's hands is a good thing". However, he added that the paper version remains the best for what Gideons do.

Two embarrassing computer glitches are making the organisers of London's Olympic games look like a really unprofessional bunch.

Just hours after the tickets went on sale the fault appeared, leaving anyone trying to book with a Visa credit card due to expire before the end of June discovering that the London 2012 website could not process their orders. At the same time, the official Olympic countdown clock, sponsored by official timekeeper Omega, stopped only a day after it was unveiled in Trafalgar Square. Sheepish technicians were trying to restore the service last night.

Part of the problem for the London Olympics is that buying tickets is a bit of a lottery, and to win tickets you need a valid credit card. However if people try to enter the lottery, and their card expires before the lottery is drawn, it will be invalid.

Still it all looks pretty bad for the London Olympics. After the country has spent billions on them, most of the country expects it to be a catalogue of disasters. It is the British way of doing things.

The bloke who is really Apple's design genius has had a gutsful of the Apple way of life and is pining for Blighty.

Jonathan Ive, Apple's senior vice president of industrial design, is rumoured to be packing his bag and heading back to the land of driving rain, warm beer and where the trains don't run on time. The reason is that he really likes the UK and really does not like Apple's hallowed ground in Cappuccino.

Ive received an option grant in 2008 that’s now worth $US30 million, and if he sold that stock, his combined net worth would be $US128 million. So really he does not need much more cash.

He has a glowing CV too. After all it was him that came up with the iPod, iPhone, the iPad and the upcoming iPad 2 and more of the recent MacBooks and the iMacs. You would think that someone that valuable to Apple would get a bit of slack, but apparently Apple has read him the riot act.

The board has been very rude about the amount of time he spends in the UK. When it comes to churning out gadgets for fanboys and being with his two kids it seems that the board thinks that he should sacrifice them on a handy altar of Marduk for the sake of the shiny gadgets. If only there was a way that he could work from the UK and telecommute. We guess the Apple network is not up to it.

According to the Times the Board has told him in no uncertain terms that if he headed back to England he would not be able to sustain his position with them”. An Apple spokesperson told the Times that any claims of Ive wanting to move to England are “speculation” but it seems that the yarn has legs.

We know that the Japanese have never really forgiven the British for that Pacific War, but it seems that Nintendo have decided to lump a surcharge for living in Blighty.

The outfit has caused an outcry for taking the Wii with the lastest price offered for its 3Ds toy. British people will be required to pay 40 per cent more than the rest of the world.

The console will go into stores on March 25 in Britain and Europe with a collection of 3D games, movies and its own 3D camera system. But the toy will cost £229.99 in the UK, which is a mark-up of more than 40 per cent compared to the $249.99 (£156.50) charged in the U.S.

Details were announced at an event in Amsterdam fronted by Jonathan Ross and Ortis Deley of Channel 5's The Gadget Show, who described it as a 'complete and utter game changer'.